Tidings from Tilia Press — Asclepias

• Asclepias • Butterfly • Butterfly garden • Butterlifes • chrysalis • Fairfield Garden Center • How to raise butterflies • how to raise caterpillars • Joe Pie Weed • Metamorphosis • Milkweed • Monarch • Monarch Butterfly • Monarch caterpillar • Monarch chrysalis • Plants for a butterfly garden

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." (Leo Tolstoy).  Except when it comes to the Monarch butterfly!  I had the great pleasure of seeing more than one life cycle of these beautiful creatures in my east coast garden starting late July, 2015.   Back then, as a recent home owner "having a go" at my second season in the garden, I let things grow just to see what they might become.  Unbeknownst to me at the time, I naively let some native milkweed (Asclepias Syriaca) grow because I had no idea what it was but intuitively felt that...